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India national cricket team played their debut for the ICC Champions Trophy in the year 1998. Since their debut, the journey of the Champions Trophy has been a blend of challenges and triumphs for them. As the latest update of the ICC Champions Trophy, India has defeated Australia in a thrilling semi-final match played on 4th March 2025, securing their spot in a third consecutive Champions Trophy Final. India have won the title 2 times in 2002 (Shared with Sri Lanka) and 2013. Key players more recently have been instrumental in their success, such as Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. India has reached the finals a few times, like in 2000 and 2017, but they also faced some early exits.
Venue- This semi-final was played at the beautiful stadium of Dubai named "Dubai International Stadium"
Result- The thriller semi-final match which was played among Australia and India was won by India by 4 wickets.
Scorecard- Australia is the team who bat first and scored a total of 264 losing all their wickets in 49.3 overs. Their top scorers in this match are Steve Smith who scored 73 and Alex Carey who scored 60. The bowlers that performed well from Australian team during his match is Nathan Ellis who got 2 wickets and gave 49 runs.
India bat second and chased the total of 264 by scoring 267 while losing only 6 of their wickets in just 48.1 overs. The top scorers from Indian team are Virat Kohli and KL Rahul by scoring 84 and 42 each. Mohammad Shami and Varun Chakravarthy performed well among their bowlers by taking 3 and 2 wickets each.
India has played the total of 29 matches in this trophy, 18 of which they won and lost just 8 of them while the result for 3 was undetermined. They have been champion two times 2002 and 2013 also runners up for two times 2002 and 2017. Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Yovraj singh were among the key performers while among the recent players Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are notable players. Most runs have been scored by Shikhar Dhawan, highest individual score of 2000 by Ganguly. Most centuries have been scored by Sachin Tendulkar and Shikar Dhawan.
In the ICC champions trophy, whenever India has qualified for semi-final it is most likely that they will bring the trophy home. They have qualified four times for the semi-final including the 2025, among which they obtained the trophy two times in 2002 and 2013 and the 2025 final is yet to be played.
India is widely known as one of the best teams in the world of cricket. They have played in the ICC Champions trophy since 1998 and have achieved the trophy two times. As for 2025, they defeated Australia and qualified for the finals. India is at their best as they defeated one of the best team in the world, their form, dedication, struggle, hard-work and performing under pressure shows that they are most likely to achieve the ICC Champions trophy for the year 2025.
